The statement "The power to tax is the power to destroy"
has been credited to Chief Justice Marshall. But, regardless of who
you credit, the truth of the statement has proven prophetic throughout
history and certainly carries forward to today. This is particularly
evident with regard to the product of private property. Look what occurred
in 1763, when the English Parliament announced they were considering
imposing a series of taxes on the colonists. The uproar in the colonies
at this announcement began the trip down the road to the revolution.
Once the taxes were implemented, they not only impacted merchants in
the colonies, but all land owners, including those in the frontier areas
to the South and west.

It was a uniting force and provided the tools and adhesion that were
key to the onset and success of one of the most improbable revolutions
in the history of man. The American Revolution ultimately led to the
establishment of a radical new idea -- a republic in which our founders
intended the ultimate power of government to be in a majority of its
citizens. Land ownership, the ability to protect family and property,
and the freedoms that had evolved and were vested in state constitutions,
established an energetic and dynamic society and a nation that became
the envy of the world.

Americans' standard of living, accessibility to education, quality
of health, abundance of food, religious freedom, and the ability to
travel freely was and is not equaled anywhere in the world. We have
had the ability to achieve to the maximum of our potential and effort.
However, have you noticed the subtlety by which most of these things
we have taken for granted are gradually being eroded by government,
particularly in recent years? I cannot recall a time when individual
rights and the Sovereignty of our country have been more under attack
than at anytime in our history and, incredulously the attack is coming
from within.

The growing fear and mistrust of government, particularly of this Administration,
that is increasingly being expressed by individuals and community organizations
is not based upon "paranoia," "wild imaginations,"
or on "conspiracy theories." This fear and mistrust is based
on real, direct and indirect assaults on individual rights, self determination,
property rights, outrageous acts by government agencies, and the surrender
of domestic sovereignty by this Administration. The fact that the vehicles
which have allowed these actions have been, for the most part, created
by this Administration behind closed doors (through regulations, rules,
and Executive Orders), out of the normal glare of public opinion, have
provided the impetus for the mistrust. As more and more of this "backdoor
legislating" by this Administration is brought to the public's
attention and they see for themselves, the mistrust of the President
and fear of government grows.

When confronted with the above for the first time, many Americans are
initially stunned into disbelief -- "Oh, that couldn't happen,
not in America!" However, more and more Americans have become aware
that this is indeed occurring, and they become frustrated at what they
believe amounts to the cannibalization of our culture. Not being able
to control their own destinies or the futures of their children is a
growing concern.

Many individuals that have come to rely on the federal government,
or must rely on it such as small businesses, have also come to feel
the political pressures of not disagreeing with those in power.

Enforcement methods of a growing list of new federal regulations has
not only eroded our property rights, but is driving natural resource
production and manufacturing out of America along with all of the good
jobs, capitol creation, and standard of living that goes with them.

The environmental movement has provided a rich source of tools for
President Clinton, Vice President Gore, and their army of environmental
zealots. Phony environmental science and documents are being created
and used as the excuse to attempt to return the US. to an agrarian society,
put much of the US. coastal areas and inland waterways under the dictates
of the UN, and make personal property rights and domestic land use planning
subject to the jurisdiction of an agency of the U.N. Now, President
Clinton threatens to implement the environmentally and economically
discredited Kyoto Global Warming Treaty even though the Senate has refused
to ratify it. These are only some examples of this Administration's
actions which are subverting the rule of law and threatening the future
stability of this nation.

Do you need more examples?

Thanks to President Clinton's crime bill, local law enforcement agencies
were forced to work for the federal government (until a recent Supreme
Court decision declared that action unconstitutional). In that same
crime bill, more than 50 crimes that once were the jurisdiction of state
government now put individuals directly under the criminal jurisdiction
of the federal government.

On the education front, contrary to what the President Clinton had
promised parents, the Department of Education, through the Goals 2000
program, has taken more control away from parents and teachers and now
has the ability and tools to increase federal control of local schools,
as has occurred in many areas of Massachusetts and Illinois. Another
Presidential program of
national testing, which Clinton and his supporters also say will not
interfere with local control of curricula's looming on the horizon even
though Congress prohibits it.

Add to this the attempt to centralized and put under the control of
the federal government all health care and related matters in the federal
government, a pattern becomes evident.

President Clinton has demonstrated utter contempt for the rule of law
and for the will of the people. He has outstripped all previous administrations
in implementing through Executive Orders, rules, and regulations new
programs that the American public or Congress would not approve.

President Clinton may, in fact, be doing more damage to individual
and states' rights, the sovereignty of the U.S., and national security
than any President or crisis in American history.

Every program this President has initiated or supported -- -- programs
"for the children," "for the elderly," "for
health care," "for the environment," have either been
rejected or failed, or are now creating problems because the affect
of the programs was to increase the power of the White House. How much
control over our lives does the executive branch need?

Lets look at this from another angle.

During the past four decades there were vociferous complaints by the
public and their elected officials alike about the heavy--handed attitude
of activist federal judges. Because of this penchant of trying to rewrite
the Constitution, Judges handed down decisions that overturned elections,
created and instituted new taxes, and established new federal programs
ignoring the
limitations placed on the judicial branch by the Constitution. During
this period of liberal control of Congress, it was also passing legislation
that was Constitutionally questionable. It was not uncommon to hear
jokes about federal judges who became God shortly after putting on their
robes, or that became infallible for life once they put on their robes.
Throughout this entire period, the actions of the courts and the Congress
increased the centralization of power by government. As we now know,
most of the problems the big spending programs were designed to abate
have become worse, unfortunately the power obtained by government remains.

Now, we have a President --one man-- that has picked up where activist
federal judges, and an arrogant Congress off.

If you take the time to look at the record and check the facts for
yourself (the Federal Register, the Congressional Record, and court
records as examples), instead of accepting the pronouncements of partisan
political pundits and news forecaster from television networks, it will
become clear what is happening. Need more proof?

President Clinton has welcomed and supported the UN actions to supplant
the power of local U.S. companies and communities in land use planning.
He has given his blessings to the creation of an international criminal
court run by non--elected foreign nationals that will have authority
to indict, arrest, and try U.S. nationals without any constitutional
protections, and without the
codification of crimes under their authority. He has issued an Executive
Order redefining Federalism giving power to the Executive Branch and
eroding the power of states and local governments -- this was withdrawn
because of public uproar. He attempted, in spite of the decision of
a federal court, to implement a computer program designed by his political
appointees to take the 2000 Census which could determine the political
makeup of Congressional Districts. The federal court in ruling against
the President, said that this computer program could, in effect, lead
to negating your vote.

Why is the President's response to events, be it the development of
a new program or an air crash, involves centralizing all control in
the hands of the Executive Branch?

A logical explanation for these actions may be concluded from the statement
made by President Clinton while out of this country in Argentina, "What
I'm trying to do is to promote a process of reorganization of the world
...".

President Clinton is making some progress towards his goal (in a big
part because of the help he is getting from his liberal friends in the
media), and does not appear to be letting the Constitution slow him
down.

President Clinton may, in fact, be doing more damage to individual
and states' rights; the sovereignty of the U.S.; and national security
than any President or crisis in American History.

There is one thing the President does not have to worry about, his
legacy -- it is assured and of his own making.